Real
Estate Economics and Finance [MGT 548]
Instructor: William Goetzmann
telephone 432-5950
Assistant: Mary Ann Nelson
The course applies economic and financial theory to the
problem of real estate investing. It
will focus on a top-down approach to real estate portfolios. Topics include valuation, development,
manager evaluation, REITs, real estate capital
markets, real estate in the investment portfolio, geographical diversification
and agency problems, housing economics and securitization. The course requires
six case write-ups (two-page max plus tables or figures). Three of these must be done individually, the others can be done with a group of four or
less. There is no exam.
The text is optional. Here is the Amazon link: Brueggeman and Fisher Real Estate Finance and Investments, 2005 edition. [BF]
Course Outline
January 18, Class 1: Introduction to Real Estate
Lecture A: Property investment in historical perspective.
Lecture B: Introduction and discussion of real estate as investment.
Here is some interesting optional reading on property rights:
-Excerpt from The Mystery of Capital by Hernando De Soto
-Henry George’s Remedy
-Morris Silver “Land Markets in the
Ancient Near East”
-Michael Hudson Interview on Russia
January 25, Class 2: Case: Angus Cartwright. Link to Angus Cartwright HBS case site. Bring your write-up to class for discussion.
Lecture: Real estate markets, supply and demand factors, strategy.
Here is some interesting optional reading on supply and demand factors in commercial property markets:
Sivitanides, Torto and Wheaton, 2003, “Real Estate Market Fundamentals and Asset Pricing”, Journal of Portfolio Management Special Issue 45-53 2003 (if this link does not work use Yale SFX links)
February 1, Class 3:
Doug Shorenstein.
Case:
Lecture: Debt, mortgages, CMBS.
February 8, Class 4: Case:
Lecture: Real
Options in Real Estate and Agency Theory and Real Estate
February 15, Class 5: Case:
Lecture: Gravity models and location analysis.
Optional
- Gravity model Matt Rosenberg [Real Simple]
- Calibrating & Testing a GRAVITY
MODEL for Any Size Urban Area,
- A New Perspective on Forecasting Store Sales: Applying Statistical Models and Techniques in the Analog Approach
David S. Rogers Howard L. Green Geographical Review, Vol. 69, No. 4. (Oct., 1979), pp. 449-458. JSTOR link” [retail application]
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7428%28197910%2969%3A4%3C449%3AANPOFS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
February 22, Class 6: Case:
Dubailand. Materials to be exhibited in class.
Lecture: Regional and international factors in real estate. International diversification.
Optional
- Case, Goetzmann & Rouwenhorst “Global Real Estate Markets: Cycles and Fundamentals”
March 1, Class 7: Case: Evaluation Corporation.
Lecture: Real estate indices, historical data, risk and return, time series modeling.
March 22, Class 8: Ellen Shuman, CIO, Carnegie Foundation.
Lecture: Background for Lucky U case: portfolio
optimization.
March 29, Class 9: Case: Lucky U.
Lecture: Institutional Investors and Real Estate: A Behavioral Approach.
April 5, Class 10: Lecture: Introduction to REITs and Corporate Governance and Real Estate.
Case: Taubman Hostile Takeover Battle.
April 12, Class 11: Tom Zacharias, W.P. Carey on Real Estate Investment Trusts.
Lecture: Introduction to housing. Performance of housing as an investment. Low-income housing policy.
April 19, Class 12: Lecture: Measurement of housing returns. The mortgage market. Valuation of mortgage backed securities.
April 26, Class 13: Home Equity Insurance: A
Pilot Project
Lecture: Class wrap-up and discussion.